 | The 50 Greatest Mysteries of All Time
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Savor the delights in this fine collection, a must for every home library, in which multi-award winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler presents the fifty most exquisite tales of mystery and suspense from fifty master writers. With classic tales from masters such as Edgar Allen Poe, Wilkie Collins, Aldous Huxley, Ring Lardner, Stephen King, James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith, Sara Paretsky, Lawrence Block, Elmore Leonard, and dozens of others! ...
 |  | The Castle in the Attic
Release Date: March 14, 2000| Age Level: 9 and up...
|  | Collected Short Stories
Publication Date: November 5, 1987Four collections of Ruth Rendell stories, originally published separately - "`The Fallen Curtain' and other stories" (1976), "`Means of Evil' and other stories" (1979), "`The Fever Tree' and other stories" (1982), and "`The New Girlfriend' and other stories" (1985). --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition....
|  | The Detections of Francis Quarles (Lost Classics)
Publication Date: February 10, 2006| Series: Lost Classics CLASSIC DETECTION BY A GRAND MASTER Julian Symons (1912-1994) was one of the greatest mystery writers to emerge after World War II.He was recognized with the Crime Writers Association’s highest honor, The Cartier Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement and the Mystery Writers of America honored him as a Grand Master.In 1950, for a long-running series of short-short stories for London’s Evening Standard newspaper, Symons invented private detective Francis Quarles.After engaging in mysterious activites during the Second W...
|  | Orange County Noir (Akashic Noir)
Publication Date: April 1, 2010| Series: Akashic Noir Orange County, California, brings to mind the endless summer of sand and surf, McMansion housing tracts, a conservative stronghold, and tony shopping centers. It's a place where pilates classes are run like boot camps, real estate values are discussed at your weekly colonic, and ice cream parlors on Main Street, USA, exist side-by-side with pho shops and taquerias. Orange County Noir pulls back the veil to reveal what lurks behind the curtain.Features brand-new stories by: Susan Straight, Robert S. Levinson, Rob Roberge, Nathan Walpow, Ba...
|  | Crime Movies II (Famous Television Crime)
Publication Date: August 1, 1997| Series: Famous Television Crime "Cops on the Box" have been among the most popular series on television for many years. From the days of Edgar Lustgarten's Scotland Yard by way of Softly, Softly; Maigret; The Professionals and more recently, New Columbo, these stories of crime busters battling to bring criminals to justice have proved to be enormously popular with audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.This collection brings together for the first time a number of the short stories on which these series were based, most by writers whose names are now automa...
|  | Speak of the Devil: 14 Tales of Crimes and Their Punishments (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | The Last Noel (Worldwide Mystery)
Publication Date: November 1, 2004| Series: Worldwide Mystery (Book 509) SANITY CLAUSE Steve Brewer When a panicked elf finds Santa's dead body at a local mall, private investigator Bubba Mabry is in the hot seat. Merry tidings of greed, betrayal and Grinch-like deviousness soon follow as a grumbling Bubba hunts for a yuletide killer in a tale of murder, mistletoe and misery.FINDING CHARITY Catherine DainHollywood actress turned therapist Faith Cassidy discovers that the disappearance of a young prostitute named Charity and the murder of Faith's good friend Tori are connected in ominous ways...
|  | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories: All 56 Stories with Original Illustrations from The Strand Magazine
Publication Date: May 28, 2002They're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction. Every short story is here--grouped into series (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Last Bow), each containing several adventures. Among the highlights: "A Scandal in Bohemia," where the gr...
|  | Chesapeake Crimes II
Publication Date: December 2006Chesapeake Crimes II is an eclectic mix of mystery and murder. No sooner do the stories start than the bodies begin to fall.Fifteen mysteries written by fifteen different authors - all members of Chesapeake Sisters in Crime and some of the hottest authors in mystery today - are a must-read for anyone serious about murder mysteries. In these pages you will find Edgar, Anthony, and Agatha Award winners. ...
|  | Bad Juju & Other Tales of Madness and Mayhem
Publication Date: April 20, 2010Running a scam in a two-bit Caribbean republic, a tough-as-nails gun moll has to outrun both a murder rap and the local neo-Nazi commandant. A jealous archaeologist uses a Mayan stone dildo to bludgeon to death the chairman of the Archaeology Department. An accountant goes on a tropical vacation to a place where everything is falling apart, including his own sketchy soul. Seduced by an escaped psychopath named Dandelion, a frat boy has no choice but to commit murder. The nineteen opium dreams that make up Bad Juju provide the most outrageous, entertaining and ...
|  | Wild Crimes
Release Date: September 7, 2004From Edgar Award winner Dana Stabenow comes an all-new mystery anthology featuring wild men, wilder women, and the wildest crimes imaginable...Go where the wild things are-whether on unruly and lawless urban streets, a secluded stretch of uncivilized and barbarous woods, or in the frozen mountains of Colorado. Anything can happen to anyone-anywhere-when the nature of man turns wild.Original stories of mystery in the wild by:Michael ArmstrongMargaret CoelMike DooganLoren D. EstlemanLaurie R. KingSkye K. MoodyBrad ReynoldsS. J. Rozan James SarafinDana StabenowJoh...
|  | A Good Story and Other Stories
Publication Date: 2000This collection of short fiction, selected by the author, spans a writing career of more than 40 years and illuminates the heart and soul of the antihero. A lone castaway on a desert island commits a murder for which he is the sole suspect. A genealogist learns just how far rotten apples fall from the family tree. A con man, impersonating a minister, finds religion. A tabloid journalist must solve a murder to complete his story on the death of a major television star, who happens to be a dog. A self-made widower discovers how hard it is to get rid of a wife, especially ...
|  | Clue Mysteries: 15 Whodunits to Solve in Minutes
Publication Date: January 31, 2003Once readers develop a taste for our thrilling little mystery stories, they just want more and more! Based on the grand success of our Five-Minute Mysteries series, this collection features fifteen light and lively tales, each of which can be solved in ten minutes or less. Set in the fictional Tudor Hall in 1926 and starring familiar characters from the classic 1949 board game, these stories give readers an opportunity to sleuth out the culprit among Colonel Mustard, Professor Plum, Mrs. Patricia Peacock, and the others in all manner of fun-to-solve intrigue...
| | The Family Jewels and Other St (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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|  | Chronicles of Crime
Publication Date: August 3, 2000This is an anthology of some of the contemporary leading British and American crime writers who have contributed stories on a wide-range of settings and sleuths. It should appeal to fans of historical and modern crime. ...
|  | Captain Underhill Uncoils the Mystery: The Cobra in the Kindergarten and The Whirlpool (Cape Cod Radio Mystery Theater)
Publication Date: May 19, 2005 ...
|  | On a Raven's Wing: New Tales in Honor of Edgar Allan Poe by Mary Higgins Clark, Thomas H. Cook, James W. Hall, Rupert Holmes, S. J. Rozan, Don Winslow, and Fourteen Others
Release Date: January 6, 2009Twenty contemporary writers commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe with chilling stories inspired by the master himself.Nearly two centuries after they were penned, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tales are still working their eerie magic on readers of every stripe—thrill-seekers, filmmakers, even fellow writers of suspense. Collected here to honor and celebrate Poe's genius are original stories by some of the best mystery writers at work today. A son attempts to connect with his dying father in Thomas H. Cook's "Nevermore." Jo...
|  | The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes
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|  | Crowded Lives and Other Storie (Five Star First Edition Mystery)
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